Remember yesterday, when I said I looked through a broken window and found no surprises?

I thought the same thing was going on here, in the very next window to the east. I saw those scales and the three slants of light, and got the shot. Later, when I got home and downloaded the SD card, I saw what I had somehow missed in the moment – that owl (and those talons!). And there was my surprise…

I found a broken window and looked inside, yet again feeding my interest in seeing what kinds of things get left behind when a place becomes abandoned. No big surprises here, really, but I did quite enjoy the off-the-hook telephone.

A barn swallow flew around in her frenetic way, kindly illustrating how that very splattery pattern of bird shit got all over walls.